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Something I have encountered over the last week is people making fun of PTSD. During a training...
Nope, not isolated. The people I work with know my condition and trigger me on purpose all the time. They are complete strangers that harass, lie, and make fun of me. If I dare to ignore them they threaten to tell my boss.

I learned today how the mind of the predator works that gave me PTSD, horrifically scary how a total stranger that stalks someone thinks that he really is talking to the victim, that the victim has something to do with him. I learned that today and it totally freaked me out.

So many triggers today, many of them rooted in trauma from stalking, workplace abuse.
For a while today I was floating, felt like my feet were not touching the floor. That felt great, like traveling through galaxies. I am slowly awakening from a coma which I have been in for the past six years and it is so amazing because that is what I understand now. I am slowly awakening from this coma, surreal. My brain is making sense of what happened before I fell into that coma. So weird, it was a totally amazing experience, how to slowly transitio n from a coma into a fully awakened state, to be able to experience true healing, to notice that the brain is more open, to understand the wonderful implications of true caring. It is like wow.

And then more huge anxiety attacks along with major trigger experiences. PTSD is so exhausting.
 
When I'm triggered, my fight mode kicks in, and maybe because of that, I don't think anyone has ever laughed at me. It really hurt, though, to discover recently that the people I love are terrified of me. I'm not violent, but I guess I can be pretty scary. :(

I believe that people laugh at things that they don't understand, or that they're uncomfortable with. They're fools and cowards.
 
When I'm triggered, my fight mode kicks in, and maybe because of that, I don't think anyone has eve...
Having ptsd from CSA and lost a stepdaughter to murder, I mention to people that I come across in social settings that my stepdaughters' deceased but always mention it when they ask "do you have any kids" .. many people can't deal with hearing such things if they have kids themselves and their very reactions to the disclosure I use as a screening mechanism as to whether I will bother to associate with them in any way other than superficial going forward. I don't need the cowardly people who lack true empathy anywhere around me and refuse to bother with them.
 
Having ptsd from CSA and lost a stepdaughter to murder, I mention to people that I come across in social s...
Welcome to the forum, Vger, I'm glad you found us! May I ask, what sort of reaction would you be looking for? I know you spoke of compassion, but are you ever smothered by too much compassion? I ask because I would be in tears before you finished saying the words. :'(

@Sailor_Jerry89, sorry for hijacking your thread!
 
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